Reviews with content warning for Murder - Stiklainis širdžių

Dark. Couple of twists, both surprising and not so surprising..
Strangely slow, but not at the same time...
The characters at times felt kind of juvenile (even in the 'present day' parts)

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non consensual acts with relatively detailed description between minors (teen)/adult - bothered me more than expected.

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alliesmock's review against another edition

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tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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jbods's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced

5.0

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hbsnewadventure's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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thackerleah's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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wheresminnie's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book kept me interested and was a pretty quick finish. I don't think it lived up to the BookTok hype - but what book does? I enjoyed how much of Geo's story was told in a relatively quick way - from teenage years, to

her incarceration

, to present day. About 3/4 of the way through, I had an epiphany that

Kai was the killer and had been trying to get Geo's attention due to his years-long unrequited love

. I was a bit disappointed that I was wrong. It would have been a stretch, but

no more of a stretch than a surprise son doing copycat crimes of his serial killer father to get his mother's attention and then showing up to rape her

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ebonysbookshelf's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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exquisite_tragedy's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Boy, was this dark! I’m not complaining, but I genuinely wasn’t expecting that for some reason.

This book has been languishing on my TBR for years, so I’m glad I finally picked it up. I ended up enjoying it for the most part. It was super messed up and went in a lot of unexpected directions. I just felt like parts of this dragged and went on for way too long. Like, a big chunk was spent outlining her life in prison…and for what? Cut out like 100 pages and I think I would have loved this.

CWs for sexual assault, graphic depictions of jail life, rape, gore/violence, emetophobia, child death, murder, violence involving eyeballs

Story: 3/5
Audiobook: 5/5 (narrated by January LaVoy)
Length: 10h43min

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